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SalarySalary: Marie Curie Clinical Pay Scale, aligned with AFC Band 2 - £11.45 per hour plus enhancements:
- £16.14 per hour for weekday nights & Saturdays
- £20.95 per hour for Sundays & Bank Holidays
Contract Type: Permanent
Based: Bradford Hospice
Closing date: 16th April 2024
Interview date: TBC
Marie Curie provides free specialist support and care for patients with cancer and other life limiting conditions, and their families. We aim to give patients the best possible quality of life, meeting their medical, spiritual and social needs, while also providing their families with the emotional support they need.
To join our dedicated, caring team, you'll need an S/NVQ Level 2/3 qualification or an equivalent certificate/diploma, or be willing to work towards it, and relevant experience - ideally within a care setting. Emotional strength and the ability to work on your own are crucial, though we will of course provide excellent on-going training and support. We expect you to have a talent for forging strong empathetic relationships with all kinds of people, whilst providing palliative care. Due to the nature of the role a flexible approach including the ability to work nights and weekends.
Marie Curie Benefits Package
- Season ticket loan for travelling to and from work
- Defined contribution schemes for Pension (the charity will match your contribution up to 7.5%)
- Marie Curie Group Personal Pension Scheme
- Loan schemes for bikes; computers and satellite navigation systems
- Introduce a friend scheme
- Help with childcare cost (T & C's apply)
- Entitled to Marie Curie Blue Light Card
- Entitled to Benefit-Hub Discount Scheme
- Life assurance - for all employees
- Annual leave allowance: 27 days plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)
- Annual leave aligned to NHS (subject to eligibility, which must be most recent continuous service immediately prior to joining MC with no breaks of service)
- Competitive Policy for parental/sick Leave
- Continuous Professional development - (Marie Curie supports and encourages personal and professional development)
- Industry leading training programmes
- Flexible Working
- Free DBS
- Free Uniform
- Generous enhancements:
- 41% x your basic salary per hour paid for Saturdays & weekday night duty (8pm to 6am)
- 83% x your basic salary per hour paid for Sundays and Public Bank Holidays
- Mileage allowance of 45p per mile
- Paid for while training and travelling in between patients
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work within a team.
- Flexible approach to working patterns
- Recent experience in a health/social care setting
- An empathy and understanding of issues encountered by patients with palliative care needs
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Marie Curie is committed to its values, which underpin our work. We take stringent steps to ensure that the people who join our organisation through employment or volunteering, are suitable for their roles and are committed to safeguarding all our people from harm. This includes our staff, volunteers and all those who use or come into contact with our services. We are dedicated to creating not just a safe place to work but also a supportive and rewarding one.
We are committed to a world where everyone can thrive and fulfil their potential. We are devoted to the social justice imperatives and organisational benefits of full diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace, and are a Stonewall champion. We actively encourage and welcome applications from candidates of diverse cultures, perspectives and lived experiences.
This role will be subject to receiving a satisfactory enhanced criminal record check.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early. Agencies need not apply.
